Trigger warning: This article talks about suicide and mental health. Should you be triggered, reach out to a health professional or call 911. What is peace to you? Is it the calmness of the mind? Is i...
As far as I can remember, social media has served more than its purpose of being “social” for over two decades now. These platforms have evolved from simply enabling connections across bou...
The 2025 Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) highlighted legal and societal issues through films that showed law as a tool for justice and dignity. The films Bar Boys, Call Me Mother, Manila’s Finest,...
I wonder how one can process thoughts and emotions so much that we momentarily forget the sadness. Perhaps it’s a positive thought to share good vibes or humor. The laughter so loud exercises ou...
One of the most disliked – and often feared – course in college is Thesis, or research. In everyday conversations, research is often framed as something distant and intimidating: confined to the unive...
“Greed is in their hearts” are words that transformed the classic Jose Mari Chan’s yuletide song “Christmas in our hearts” into an anti-corruption piece by the University of the Philippine Symphony...
I wonder how cats live that long so much that they are called to have nine lives. I wonder if it’s a myth or just a figure of speech about how they live – as I’ve said with nine live...
Photographs as evidence in court in the Kdrama “Typhoon Family” triggered memories of my “darkroom” days as chief photographer of the Philippine Collegian of the University of the Philippines Diliman...
All that I knew about Gregoria de Jesus is that she was the wife of revolutionary Gat Andres Bonifacio, or Mrs. Andres Bonifacio. Then I recently saw “Lakambini: Gregoria de Jesus” when it was scr...
As a person with a disability myself, I believe that work is essential to self fulfillment. It is a way to earn and sustain your daily basic needs. Although I have struggled to be employed, sanity dic...
